Global Capability

The practice draws on front-line investment banking and consultancy experience of working with organisations ranging from governments and multilaterals - such as the World Bank, ADB, OECD and UN - through to UHNW family offices, on projects ranging from privatisation and M&A, including FDI, through to corporate restructuring. Industry experience is broad, with particular regional depth across the EU, CEE, MENA, Asia and Japan.

The engagements below are a selected illustration of this work across policy, research, and structural advisory. With the exception of named institutional collaborations and public contributions, clients are not identified.

Policy and Multilateral Engagement

• Presentation at ministerial level to the OECD-ILO conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, addressing the integration of social and governance considerations into the conduct of enterprise.

• Contribution to the United Nations Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) on Supporting the Transition to a Global Green Economy, examining the role of the financial sector in mediating the relationship between capital allocation and environmental outcomes.

Research and Sector Analysis

• Research and presentation on the consumer finance sector across Central and Eastern Europe, undertaken in a period of rapid institutional development.

• Research on the regional banking sector in the People's Republic of China, focused on the structural conditions governing the relationship between local financial institutions and the wider economy.

• Research and presentation on the global automotive tyre recycling industry, addressing the structural and regulatory dynamics of a sector positioned at the intersection of industrial policy and environmental obligation.

Strategic and Structural Advisory

• Development of an operational platform for the hedge fund industry, designed to address the institutional and process requirements of smaller managers.

• Development of a bilateral trade model between Portugal and the People's Republic of China, oriented toward the wine and tourism industries.

• Design of a pensions investment platform supporting informed choice in the face of uncertainty.

• Development of a proposal for the balance-sheet restructuring of a private equity investor, addressing the relationship between fund-level obligations and the underlying portfolio under conditions of constrained liquidity.

Public Contributions

• Invited contributor to Superhedge, Frankfurt, addressing the behavioural dimensions of risk in the hedge fund industry - a theme central to the practice's wider work on the limitations of quantitative methods and the role of judgement under uncertainty.

• The practice has contributed to the Financial Times, International Financing Review (IFR) and the Managed Funds Association in the United States.